Example sentences of "to being one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |
| 2 | ‘ In addition to being one of the few remaining commons in the area Newtown Common is a very valuable home for wildlife . ’ |
| 3 | Banking can lay claim to being one of the world 's earliest multinational industries with financiers in Lombardy ( Italy ) lending money to various European royal houses in the 1300s . |
| 4 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 5 | In a matter of a few months the firm moved from being an outsider in the specialist insurance audit market ( having about 15% of the top insurance companies , measured in terms of premium income ) to being one of the two market leaders . |
| 6 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 7 | In barely two weeks ( 12 – 25 July ) , he had gone from being very reluctant to participate in the rising to being one of its main protagonists , and a vital interlocutor with Hitler and Mussolini . |